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rangement of the coloured spots on the true labellum, and that on the 

 adventitious lips, replacing the two lower of the outer stamens, wero 



Fig. 193. Diagram showing the arrangement of parts in a mal- 

 formed flower of u^hi-ys aranifera (see p. 384). 



not of a similar character. The supernumerary lips had the ir-shaped 

 marking which is so common in this species, while the tme lip was, 

 as to its spots, much more Hke 0. apifera. Alternating with this last 

 whorl were three columns, all apparently perfectly formed and diflfering 

 only from the ordinary one in their smaller size and corresponding to 



Fra. 194. Malformed flower of Ophrya aranifera with two super- 

 numerary lips and three additional stamens. 



a 1, a 2, a 3. The ovary in this flower was two-celled, with four parietal 

 placentas, thus giving an appearance as though there had been a fusion 

 of two or more flowers associated with suppression and other changes. 

 The position of the supernumerary organs and the absence of any 



